My abode!
Let all as they value themselves avoid meeting
me there; for, when they enter it, it will be never
to quit it more. Who am I? That can only be known
when this life has been exchanged for another. I
charge you, madame, to command the lieutenant,
M. de Sartines., to cease his researches after me;
they would be fruitless, and might only compromise
your safety. Remember, I predicted your good
fortune; was I not correct in it? I have also
foretold reverses: I am equally correct in them also.
You will see me twice more; and should I
unfortunately cross your path a third time, prepare
to bid adieu to the light of heaven and the pleasures
of this world."
It is impossible to convey an idea of the excessive terror with
which I was filled upon the perusal of this billet. I summoned
my sister-in-law, and complained of the harshness of conduct
thus adopted against my pleasure. Chon was equally alarmed,
and confessed to me what she had done in asking the aid of M.
de Sartines; at the same time that she was the first to declare that
it was requisite to put an end to all further search, which, in
one shape or other, might bring on the most fatal consequences.
I therefore wrote myself to M. de Sartines, thanking him for his
exertions; but saying, that my sister-in-law and myself had
learned from the lips of the mysterious stranger all we were
desirous of knowing, and that any future researches being
unpleasant to him would be equally disagreeable to me.
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